Huckvale cites commonalities between Richard Wagner and Bulwer-Lytton (1803-1873): oa radical youth turned reactionary in older age, an immense reputation in life, posthumously tainted by association with the Nazis, a love of luxurious surroundings, a romantic fascination with chivalry, history and magic, and immense wealth.

Her short stories and poems have been published all over the world, and in 2012 she won the Bulwer-Lytton Fiction Prize, the Sampad 'Inspired by Tagore' Prize and the Malahat Review Monostich Poetry Prize.

Edward Bulwer-Lytton, author of The Last Days of Pompeii (1834)--a subject Martin tackled himself in The Destruction of Pompeii and Herculaneum (1826)--detected in him 'the divine intoxication of a great soul lapped in majestic and unearthly dreams.

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